After Fukushima

The Equivalence of Catastrophes

Jean-Luc Nancy and Translated by Charlotte Mandell

-This book presents the text of a video-lecture given by Nancy in 2011 at the invitation of the International Research Center for Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. It therefore is lecture style--philosophical, but quite accessible.

The author's theme is catastrophe in an age of globalization, when any local catastrophe is immediately propagated around the world through being part of a globalized complex.

The little book is thus a dense and powerful essay on our times and civilization.

After Fukushima

The Equivalence of Catastrophes

Jean-Luc Nancy and Translated by Charlotte Mandell

Description

In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a "natural" catastrophe when all of our technologies nuclear energy, power supply, water supply are necessarily implicated, drawing together the biological, social, economic, and political? Nancy examines these questions and more. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with Nancy conducted by Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Yuji Nishiyama and Yotetsu Tonaki.

After Fukushima

The Equivalence of Catastrophes

Jean-Luc Nancy and Translated by Charlotte Mandell

Author Information

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Among the most recent of his many books to be published in English are Corpus; Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity; Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body; The Truth of Democracy; and Adoration: The Destruction of Christianity II (all Fordham).

Charlotte Mandell has translated over thirty books, including two other books by Jean-Luc Nancy for Fordham University Press: Listening and The Fall of Sleep.